Orchidee
Pippo Delbono
Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti, Modena
31/05/2013
, 
20:00
01/06/2013
, 22:00
by Pippo Delbono
with actors of Compagnia Pippo Delbono
Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Arena del Sole - Nuova Scena – Teatro Stabile di Bologna, Teatro di Roma, Théatre du Rond Point-Parigi, Maison de la Culture-Amiens
Running time 1h 45'
World première
For the title of his new creation, Pippo Delbono has chosen the name of an exotic, delicate, elegant and striking flower, that often adorns, in artificial specimens, the drawing rooms of the middle-class homes. This flower here sums up the sense of Delbono’s journey embarked with his company: homogeneous in its unevenness, full of eccentric personalities. Author of a theater that comes from strong needs and inescapable limits, his inspiration comes from the suggestions that the reality of our time suggests, marked so hard by all the difficulties we are experiencing. Delbono is starting a new adventure in theatre inspired by a female lyricism, perhaps suggested by the recent loss of his mother. Author who always likes to explore and define new ways, now puts at the center of his investigation the thin line between reality and fiction. Orchidee will evoke episodes of real life becoming a sort of its synthesis, and will open the doors to the spectators who Delbono, like few others, know how to divide and excite.
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Pippo Delbono
Pippo Delbono, author, actor, director, was born in Varazze (SV) in 1959.
He began his studies of dramatic art in a traditional school he left in research for a new theatrical language. He decided to study the principles of eastern theatre, where is central a detailed and strict work of the actor on the body and on the voice, where theatre and dance meet and merge.
At the beginning of the Eighties, he founded Pippo Delbono Company with whom he represented all his performances, from Il tempo degli assassini (1987) to La Menzogna (2008). The are not representations of theatrical texts but entire creations where the actors are part of a stable core that grows up through the time.
The meeting with people coming from emarginated areas of society brings a turning in his poetical research. From this encounter came out Barboni (1997). Some of these actors, for example Bobò, a deaf-and-dumb person met in the mental hospital of Aversa after 45 years spent there, strenghtened their work inside the company and are today a basic part of the experience.
The performances - La rabbia, dedicated to Pasolini, Guerra, Esodo, Gente di plastica, Urlo, Il silenzio, Questo Buio Feroce and the other already mentioned- have been represented in more than 50 countries.
The experience of Pippo Delbono Company has been hosted in a lot off different theatrical International festivals, between them Avignon Festival which welcomed the company three times, coproduced the performance Urlo and hosted “La Menzogna”, the last theatrical production, in July 2009. A lot of theatres dedicated a retrospective to Pippo Delbono work, one of these the Théâtre du Rond Point in Paris.
Enrico V, the only creation based on a theatrical text- the historic drama by Shakespeare – has been represented – as the only Italian performance - at Royal Shakespeare Company.
Since a lot of years Pippo Delbono made researches on the language of cinema. In 2003 after the tournée in Israel/Palestina, he has shoot the film Guerra, presented at Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, and at David of Donatello as the best documentary. His second film, Grido (2006), has been presented at Festa del Cinema in Roma. For Teatro Sperimentale of Spoleto he realized the opera Studio per Obra Maestra. Actually he is working at his third film and at different artistic, cultural and editorial projects.
He published Barboni – Il teatro di Pippo Delbono with Ubulibri; Mon théâtre, edited by Actes Sud; Le corps de l’acteur, edited by Les Solitaires Intespestifs; El teatro de la rabia, edited by Punto Aparte; Récits de juin, edited by Actes Sud; Racconti di giugno, edited by Garzanti; Ecrivains de plateau, by Bruno Tackels published by Les Solitaires Intempestifs; Teatrul Meu, edited by „Fundatia Culturala Camil Petrescu“ and Corpi senza menzogna with Leonetta Bentivoglio and edited by Barbes.
He won the Ubu special prize for the performance Barboni, the Olimpic prizes for theatrical innovation with the performances Gente di Plasitca and Urlo, the Critic prize for Guerra and the Europa Prize for the new theatre in Wroclaw (Poland) in 2009.
In 2008 he participated as actor to the film Io sono l’amore by Luca Guadagnino and in 2009 he shot with his mobile phone the film La Paura.
